Download or read book Ovarian Cancer Journeys written by Ayala Miron and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All of the research has reinforced that ovarian cancer is not a silent disease as was once thought and as is shown quite eloquently in this collection of stories.... The value of this collection of stories is that it helps raise awareness about symptoms, need for patient persistence, and the importance of being treated by a gynecologic oncologist." Barbara A. Goff, MD Professor and Co-Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology University of Washington School of Medicine Women of ages 17 to 78 join to tell their true stories. Find out about the lessons they have learned along their ovarian cancer journeys; from symptoms to diagnosis, trough treatments, and survival. Ovarian cancer facts: Occurs in 1 out of 57 women 89% have symptoms at the early stages of the disease 75% are diagnosed in the late stages of the disease 90% do not have history of ovarian cancer in their family Early detection is critical and can improve survival rate to 90%

Download or read book Slow Train written by Dee Shemma and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears are the perfect place for you to start healing. Dealing with the dreaded diagnosis and planning your prognosis. Ovarian cancer is not silent, there are signs and symptoms. Dont own cancer by saying I have cancer or My cancer. Will you go the conventional or the alternative route? Theres a difference between a good doctor and a great doctor. The choices, challenges and changes of chemotherapy treatment. Getting used to bald being beautiful and wearing a wig. Life is like a movie and, temporarily, you may not be in it. If you dont have a wellness programme, you should create one. Do you feel you fit the cancer profile? On a cancer journey, you die to your old life and are born again. Your recovery is individual, it wont fit a schedule. There are things family and friends should know. Try to keep in touch with Champs, no matter what. Youll be showered with gifts from the Universe and friends. Youll be grateful for chemo pals, sisters and carers. It hurts when someone doesnt know how to be there for you. The pain of losing a friend to cancer. Strategies for dealing with depression. Youll be wrapped in light, grace and good energy. In time, you may feel grateful for the cancer journey. Is cancer a gift?

Download or read book Ovarian Cancer You Can Not Be Serious written by Janice M. Coggins MSW and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS THE NOW. I am still here. Call me blessed. Call me determined. And yes, call me very grateful. Now call me a writerbecause I need to share my story. I have been diagnosed with the fifth most common cancer killer of women: ovarian cancer. I have broken through to a brighter time. My mission now is to increase the likelihood that many more stricken-women, may also live beyond the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of ovarian cancer. This book begins with my story of being here as a survivor. I love to meet other survivors because they are like instant family. I often hug them simply because we have walked the same path. For me, having cancer is real, and I embrace it as being part of who I am now. Just as I believe that each time Moses spoke of God, and Paul spoke of Jesus, it deepened their relationships with God. So it is with me. Telling my story often helps keep me in touch with my true self and with my God. Cancer may be part of me, but I am more than just cancer. And I refuse to give it more power than it is due.

Download or read book The Last Two Years written by Arthur Marsicano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the writer's wife fights advanced ovarian cancer, pancreatitis and possible liver cancer, they turn to friends, family and their very different religious beliefs for strength, support and insight. During a dramatic two-year period their lives intersect with others experiencing tragedy, and they draw strength, inspiration and even joy from all of them-every single one of them. Jean Marsicano's life was threatened by ovarian cancer-known to many as the silent killer-and she was joined by her husband, her "Rock," as they focused on fighting the evil which had invaded her body. They counted their blessings, asked if their lives had meaning, and in the face of great adversity, they enjoyed life. Jean survived The Last Two Years thanks to three physicians-"Pal" and "Mitch" who supplied support and direction when they needed it most, and Dr. Goodman, a brilliant young physician who delivered Jean's medical care with skill, wisdom and compassion. As The Last Two Years end, they find hope in the face of continuing uncertainty and joy in friends, family and the beaches of South Carolina. And they realize "God was There," and will always be there with them.

Download or read book My Pink Cane and Me written by Nora Gorman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Pink Cane And Me" is the story of my 6-time, stage 4, aggressive metastatic ovarian cancer journey. My cancer story is raw, emotional, unexpected, and inspiring. I wrote this book because I want to encourage and give hope to other people that are battling cancer. I want people to know that being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer is not always a death sentence. I am living proof that there is life after the big diagnosis. The book spans the course of 11 years, starting from my first cancer diagnosis in 2010 to the present day. My life was completely turned upside down as I was thrust into a new world of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, doctors/nurses, and cancer checks. Then, I had to go through it all over again each and every time cancer decided to make battles into wars. Through it all, I found a new purpose in life, helping others to see the light at the end of their own proverbial cancer tunnels and come out to the other side.

Download or read book Fierce Teal Warrior written by Lorie Strachan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have cancer, now what do you do? You live your life to the fullest while you fight to keep it! Lorie Strachan holds nothing back as she shares her personal Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer journey and the roller coaster ride of emotions that comes with a cancer diagnosis. She dedicates her first book to all cancer patients and their families. She hopes that by sharing her fight it will inspire others to find the strength they need to do the same.

Download or read book For His Glory written by Debbie Boggess and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For His Glory is a memoir of a servant of our Lord Jesus as she walked through an ovarian cancer journey.

Download or read book Healing with Words written by Diana Raab and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey" is a compassionate andwry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse andpoet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS(early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelatedand incurable cancer--multiple myeloma. The book includes the author'sexperiences, reflections, poetry and journal entries, in addition to writingprompts for readers to express their own personal story.Raab's journals have provided a safe haven and platform to validate and expressher feelings. Raab views journaling to be like a daily vitamin--in that itheals, detoxifies and is essential for optimal health. Readers will learn to: Understand the importance of early cancer detection and how to take control of their own healthDiscover the power of writing to release bottled-up emotionsLearn how the process of journaling can facilitate healingSee how a cancer diagnosis can be a riveting event which can renew and change a person in a unique way Praise for Raab's "Healing With Words" "One woman's story, beautifully told and inspiring to those for whomjournaling will ease a cancer diagnosis." --Barbara Delinsky, author UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors "Time after time, Diana articulates incisively the thoughts and feelings thatconvey hoped-for meaning and encouragement. She is a woman who knowswhat it is to live fully in the face of mortality. She will add value to the life ofevery person who reads this book. Healing With Words resonates at a spirituallevel for me." --Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette Author's proceeds from the sale of this book donated to benefit the Mayo Clinic Foundation Learn more at www.DianaRaab.com Another inspirational book from Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com HEA039031 Health & Fitness: Diseases - Breast Cancer SEL501000 Self-Help: Journal Writing MED058160 Nursing - Oncology & Cancer

Download or read book The Patient Journey in Ovarian Cancer written by Morag Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Views from the Other Side of the Looking Glass written by Terry Downey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something was wrong--very wrong. Even the receptionist knew it. They would fit me in. Suddenly I was on a high-speed train--going someplace that I did not want to go. I didn't have a reservation. I didn't have a destination. It didn't matter. I had the symptom. I could come on board. As the train sped rapidly down the track, my primary care physician arranged an array of appointments with other physicians and various diagnostic tests. Descriptions of the pictures of my inner body did not verify the presence or absence of cancer. Instead they suggested a diverse assortment of diagnoses. It was like having to choose an answer for a multiple-choice question but choosing the answer that I liked best--most likely a fibroid--was not an option. Fiews from the Other Side of the Looking Glass: Reflections on My Journey with Ovarian Cancer captures author Terry Downey's experiences with a silent but deadly cancer. Downey describes finding herself on a high speed train going places that she did not want to go. As she progressed through diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and radioimmune therapy, those who made the journey with her helped to transform her feelings of hopelessness and despair into feelings of hope and courage.

Download or read book Not All Bad Comes to Harm You written by Janice Mock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people have cancer. Thousands of people are fighting it. Thousands more are living with it. Author Janice Mock is just one of those thousands. But in Not All Bad Comes to Harm You, Mock shares her story to help others find new insight, strength, inspiration, and self-awareness. It all started in February 2011 when fifty-one-year-old Mock discovered a small lump in her neck. She was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, and treatment began. In this memoir, Mock narrates her journey, experiences, and thoughts beginning with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis to recovery and beyond. She discusses details of how she changed her focus from victim to survivor, to pursuing life rather than succumbing to death, and why she thought it was a good idea to freeze her head to forty degrees below zero. Grown from the tiny beginnings of a blog intended to communicate medical updates with family and friends, Not All Bad Comes to Harm You tells Mocks storyfrom the joys and travails of the bumpy cancer road to evolving thoughts about living beyond her illness.

Download or read book Writing About My Health Journey with Ovarian Cancer written by Ovarian Cancer Survivor Books and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing About My Health Journey with Ovarian Cancer - College Ruled Notebook (Teal Awareness Ribbon Survivor Cover) If you or someone you know is living with Ovarian Cancer and find writing to be a therapeutic activity, you'll love this notebook. It's perfectly sized to fit in a bag or carry with you from the doctor's office to bed. Features: 120 premium white pages matte soft cover with Ovarian Cancer Design college ruled pages Suggested Uses: journal therapy pain tracker notes from doctor visits gift for individuals living with Ovarian Cancer gift for pain psychologist, pain management doctor, or occupational / physical therapist

Download or read book Nancy s Journey written by Nancy Lofstead and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnosed in 1989 with ovarian cancer that had metastasized to other parts of her body, Nancy Lofstead provides an insider's view of cancer treatment and its side effects, and her efforts to encourage other cancer patients.

Download or read book Writing About My Health Journey with Ovarian Cancer written by Ovarian Cancer Survivor Books and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing About My Health Journey with Ovarian Cancer - College Ruled Notebook (This Is What A Survivor Looks Like Teal Awareness Ribbon Cover) If you or someone you know is living with Ovarian Cancer and find writing to be a therapeutic activity, you'll love this notebook. It's perfectly sized to fit in a bag or carry with you from the doctor's office to bed. Features: 120 premium white pages matte soft cover with Ovarian Cancer Design college ruled pages Suggested Uses: journal therapy pain tracker notes from doctor visits gift for individuals living with Ovarian Cancer gift for pain psychologist, pain management doctor, or occupational / physical therapist

Download or read book Overcoming written by Ann Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Holbrook shares her personal journey from her diagnosis of ovarian cancer, through healing, back to wellness and new-found faith in understanding where God is in all of this.

Download or read book Three Daughters Three Journeys written by Jill Charles and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer threatens the lives of people around the world. Women, in particular, are at risk of certain cancers with a genetic cause. Certain mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes put mothers and daughters at risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Unlike many cancers that most commonly occur after age 60, these inheritable cancers threaten women’s lives, health and fertility even when they are young, before most would even begin to go for annual mammogram screenings to check for breast cancer. Three Daughters, Three Journeys takes on the biggest health issue of our time from a global perspective with three heroines fighting for their lives against cancer. Marzena, a Polish oncology nurse, has spent her life treating child patients with cancer. Then, she confronts it in her own family and her own body. Kamola, a rural Indian girl, knows she has symptoms of the same disease that took her mother, but feels afraid to discuss it with her father and brothers, knowing her family cannot afford medical treatment. Kamola confides in Dr Rini Mishra, a doctor testing a new treatment called Neelazin, using a bacterial anticancer protein in food, to destroy cancer cells. Selena, a wealthy woman of color in Chicago, finds out about her genetic risks of breast and ovarian cancer. She has a choice of preventative surgery that will save her life but remove any chance of having children. As she meets women who struggle to afford cancer treatment, Selena dedicates her life to providing affordable homes and counseling to families affected by the disease. Although the drug Neelazin is fictional, the possibility of new cancer treatments using bacterial anticancer proteins is being researched now. A problem with the current chemotherapy for cancer treatment is the high toxicity of most of these drugs, as these drugs can enter both normal and cancer cells, though preferably cancer cells, causing the death of normal cells as well that are important in maintaining health. Another problem is that current chemotherapeutic drugs mostly target a single or few key steps that are important for cancer growth and proliferation and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. The cancer cells respond by quickly changing these single targets, thereby becoming resistant to the drugs, as is reflected in stage IV cancer patients. An alternative to chemotherapy would be to exploit the bacterial evolutionary wisdom and use certain proteins that can have preferential entry to cancer cells in order to minimize normal cell toxicity and multiple targets in cancer cells through protein–protein complex formation, thus reducing resistance development in cancer cells. An interesting advantage of protein drugs is to express them as part of food, and some recent research seems to suggest that oral consumption of such foods may allow the therapeutic protein to reach the blood stream to target the cancer. Women with the genetic risk factors could soon have the choice of taking a pill or such anticancer protein-expressing food to treat or prevent cancer, rather than removing the healthy tissue of the breasts and ovaries. Hopefully, they would not have to choose between fertility and survival, as is the implied message in this book, fictional as it is at this time.

Download or read book The Heroics of Falling Apart written by Dan Gordon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes we need to see other people do something that's scary first, and then we can take that first step into the unknown ourselves. Conventional wisdom says one must "fight" breast cancer, but fighting is not for everyone. For some, falling apart proves to be the better response. The Heroics of Falling Apart: One Couple's Breast Cancer Journey is the story of how one couple found their own authentic way to survive the ordeal of coping with a life-threatening illness. In separate voices, Judy and Dan Gordon relate and reflect on their yearlong journey with Judy's cancer, from diagnosis through the end of treatment. The Heroics of Falling Apart examines the broad range of experiences from the surprisingly different viewpoints of patient and caregiver, and does so with a candidness and humor that others facing a similar journey will find touching and inspiring, as well as informative. In the wake of a cancer diagnosis, there is an overwhelming amount of things to do-decisions to be made, questions to ponder, and emotions and people with which to cope. Often, simply knowing that there is no right or wrong way to get through it makes the journey bearable, a fact made strikingly clear through the Gordons' deeply personal and detailed account of their journey.